The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1887-08-07
THE SUN SUNDAY, AUGUST Z, 1ss7.-TwELyE PAGES.
WASHINGTON'S DAN LAMONT.


WASHINGTON'S DAN LAMONT.
TOBIAS LEAR, FIRST OF THE PREsX-
DENTS PRIYATE SECRETARIEa
A. Scholarly TeunE Man from Marvard-His
sRssembiance to the First President--His
Duties ~ Eseere to Mrs. wsshingteu-An
Eventual Lin and its Unhappy Close.
Invent to the White House the other day
and asked Col. Lamont for list Of tho mon
who had held the place be occupies. He said
he did not know how it could be obtained, but
perhaps could get It at the State Department.
They told me there that no list had been
kept, except by the accounting officers OF the
Treasury. I went to the Treasury. They told
me there that II I could furnish them the
names Of tho mon who had held the office they
might be able to discover something about
Thorn. but all the records were fled away in the
Registers, store rooms and consisted merely OF
the receipts these Secretaries had given from
time to time for their salaries. The Register
suggested that look in the Blue Book Hooked
in the Blue Book. The first copy was published
In 1922. The name OF the Private Secretary to
the President does not appear In any Of the
volumes until 1869, In the first torn OF Presi-
dent Grant Then 1t occurred to me that the
Jouhhalb VI Sou8Eobb mubb BLOW W WuOso
hands the messages from the Presidents had
been received and hunted through the files.
Sometimes the names were given. and some
times thew were not. The journal would. say,
the s S% NJ
appeared. and ali Individuality was lost
prssts sse %sn to VINO the s'Es @
exists. NJ record was ever made 81 the White
and IN Hbs
fssss%pessr s SisR them And IL ssS q ~
was q task both tedious and unsatisfactory.
t 6ns af Fl Long and patient search think got
Ths tEGusle in Ss 5osxrs the
Potomac, is Q table monument with slab OF
@tS osen on n Witch
many time read is this:
Here lie the Remains Of
H.w.. early TS' pi., hnaa ...h.
and Familiar rriea o Il the iassious Washington
IN m.5 ss SSSssrsss =: :ss.i ss:i i. a.a
accountant S ssss J. isis
:ss,: r sss sas ssrsns
| the Place Of his Abode in the City
Of Silence.
In the same enclosure stands westher-worn
stone which this inscription bears:
BSsS I Isss
This was the only son OF. Tobias Lear. and
although he died almost before the birth OF the
vanda intendne to SHOW
to the name of the great emanGipator, has mu-
o shs Of
Gen. Benjamin Lincoln Of Revolutionary fame
s h4 Re Ct pSsaaaaE TIN
friend and ssoTetWSy The war
returned to the life Of country gentleman ct
Mount Vernon There he found found, that I, ibis his
Earks eastis. frst husband e Martha
Washington, REQUIRED e tutor. he rsm%em-
tint i've Cen bsnR an man
might hunt him up the right sort Of person 4. to
the who
graduated nom Harvard with honors. and was
upon e. o sc9SHT nap n
owner, had retired with o competence and
ynS In the
inducement to accept the place . Washington a
Under these terms Lear entered upon his
Ct MOUNT
Washington extended over o.. period OF Of four I.
tisH VIII fn rsnemSered his secretary by Giving
him life lease Of an estate Of $50 acres near
New York In l4se to be inauaurased as The first
President Of the United States he invited Lear
him hs s snss. anf sss
correspondence Of Washington he alludes fre.
to his ssss IL %eTs hs
thing more than official. and from other
often reeS ao d
is5sb ssd 1ss %Ss LEAR Rss to
posed that made him fearful" and frequent
y refers to Lears scholarly tastes and artistic
Of prepossessine exterior as we'll as BRILLIANT
dag MADE me ioT
such a man about him, Lear also had a con-
TACT that In the moulding OF administrative
ens|1 the Lecisative branches Of the Govern.
ment have lost much OF their Formally and
In person there is said to have been q, re-.
markabie resemblance between the President
and his secretary. In the winter OF l7Ss Wash,
still still regarded as 6allowed ground. AZ he ap-
n VAS as the as pfs
battalion Of militia, and mounting his white
people were not expecting the Father Of his
. Country in that style. and took no notice OF
NAMED In the Presidents carriage. with great
enthusiasm his resemblance to Washington
jests Of the country at the time, and the news
papers made the obtuse people OF Portsmouth
, The duties OF Mr.. Lear required him to act as
escort for Mrs. Washington whenever that
lady went out without her husband. And In
turn ali Official calls, which she docs not do to-
day These visits were conducted with great
Lear. Etiquette required her to return visit
upon the third subsequent day, and Mrs. Bin
ney In her Recollectlons," relates how It was
done footman was sent In advance to
! notify the lady whose call was TO be returned
that Mira Warrington was about to call, and